IN-HABIT

🐾🏙️ Curious about how Lucca became a Hum-animal smart city with pet-friendly policies and nature-based solutions (NBS) to enhance well-being and social inclusion? 🔎Find out more here: https://shorturl.at/9MyB3.

📸✨ Watch some of the best moments from the event replication in Sigulda – "Market culture and cooperation in the Riga Region"! 🍴 During the first part, participants shared their successes, challenges, current issues, solutions, best practices, and future plans. 🤝💡 Then, they enjoyed a tour of Sigulda's Jāņa Market 🏪, watched a video presentation 🎥, and, of course, had a delicious lunch! 🍽️😋 A huge thank you to all participants for making this event a success! 👏🎉 https://lnkd.in/d_u4UGgH

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🌍 Interested in how cities can become more inclusive? 🏙️🐾 In Lucca, the innovative project IN-HABIT is reshaping urban spaces by integrating human-animal interactions into city planning! Researchers, policymakers, and citizens have co-designed a Hum–Animal Smart City, where pet-friendly policies and nature-based solutions (NBS) improve well-being and social inclusion. 💡 Key insights from the project: ✅ Public–Private–People Partnerships (PPPPs) helped design Animal Lines, dedicated spaces for animal-assisted activities, pet-friendly services, and education. ✅ Community participation led to new solutions, including pet care education, inclusive tourism, youth programs, and pet awareness initiatives in schools. ✅ Collaboration with municipalities is key—public institutions must align with community needs to drive real change. This participatory approach showed that urban innovation can foster healthier, more inclusive, and nature-connected communities. 🌿🐕 👉 How do you think cities can become more inclusive? Share your thoughts below! 🔗 Learn more: https://shorturl.at/9MyB3 GoGreen Routes VARCITIES - Green Cities are Healthier Cities euPOLIS

"Tirgus kultūra un sadarbība Rīgas reģionā", ENG - Market culture and cooperation in the Riga region, the replication event in Sigulda took place on February 21st. Market representatives, local producers and experts met to discuss the future of market culture and collaboration in the region. 🚀 Key topics discussed: 🔹 Exploring best practices from Āgenskalna tirgus. 🔹Understanding how the IN-HABIT project supports market development. 🔹 Hearing from Sigulda’s and Mālpils’ market about their experience. 🌟One of the highlights was an interactive sessions, with participants split into four groups to discuss about: ✅ Logistic and delivery solutions; ✅ Offers, advertisements and collaborations; ✅ Markets association and interest representation; ✅ Collection and circulation of information. As one of the participants said at the end of the event "Today was a historic moment for all of us and the future of market culture in Latvia!".  Stay tuned for more inspiring news and highlights of our IN-HABIT project! "Photo credits: Viktorija Maško"

🐾 🏙️ Lucca is the first Human-Animal Smart City in Italy! (Source: University of Pisa) As part of the IN-HABIT project, the city is pioneering pet-friendly spaces, animal-assisted interventions & inclusive urban planning. A model for well-being & sustainability! 🌱 🐶 Do you know how they achieved these results and what process they follow? 🔎 Find out more here: https://shorturl.at/XOAjw

🔎 To measure social, economic, and environmental wellbeing, IN-HABIT researchers have developed a holistic approach in Las Palmeras (Spain), integrating key dimensions such as: ✅ Subjective wellbeing ✅ Social wellbeing ✅ Healthy lifestyles ✅ Economic wellbeing ✅ Spatial and environmental wellbeing 🔬 Professor Mar Delgado stresses the importance of shifting from one-size-fits-all models to context-sensitive indicators, ensuring that policies reflect gender, race, and socio-economic conditions. 🔗 Do you want to know more? Read our last article here: https://shorturl.at/7Tm9A

📢 How can we measure health and well-being in a truly inclusive way? 🔍 A recent study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health introduces a co-created assessment framework that integrates both scientific indicators and community perspectives to better evaluate health in vulnerable urban contexts. 💡 By merging top-down scientific research with bottom-up local insights, this framework sets a new standard for inclusive health assessments that could inspire change across European cities. 📄 Read the full study here: https://shorturl.at/5Z53F

🌍 Interested in how we can truly measure inclusive health and wellbeing in vulnerable urban areas? 🤔 In Las Palmeras, a neighborhood of Córdoba, researchers have developed a co-created assessment framework, integrating top-down approaches with bottom-up insights from the local community. 🔍 Want to know more? ✅ About the study ✅ How the researchers worked ✅ Key highlights ✅ The main findings Click here: https://shorturl.at/TEacd

🚀 Exciting opportunity for EU-funded innovators! Join the European Commission's Horizon Results Platform webinar on Go-to-Market Services & Opportunities for EU-Funded R&I Results! 🌍 📅 Date: tomorrow, February 27th, 2025 ⏰ Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. CET 🔗 Register here: https://shorturl.at/qASm3